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I have consistently been harrowed by this tiny issue.

When I Try to run my Mathematica script, I get this error message:

Syntax::syntyp: \ operators can only be used between \( \).

Syntax::com: Warning: Comma encountered with no adjacent expression. >     
The expression will be treated as Null.  (line 27 of
"./L_3Lambda_max_1wl_zg_E_0001_Cos_fbc").

Syntax::sntx: Invalid syntax in or before "\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\(h\), >     
\* " (line 27 of
"./L_3Lambda_max_1wl_zg_E_0001_Cos_fbc").

This suggests that the code doesn't like my 1st and 3rd derivative boundary conditions starting line 26. What syntax do I need to specify these boundary conditions?

I have not had an issue running this as a stand alone notebook with the same boundary conditions (albeit a slightly different problem) solving the same 4th order nonlinear PDE.

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Edit:

I even tried copying my boundary conditions as plain text and tried this but to no avail:

h^(1, 0, 0)[0, y, t] == 0, 
h^(1, 0, 0)[L, y, t] == 0, 
h^(0, 1, 0)[x, 0, t] == 0, 
h^(0, 1, 0)[x, L, t] == 0, 
h^(3, 0, 0)[0, y, t] == 0, 
h^(3, 0, 0)[L, y, t] == 0, 
h^(0, 3, 0)[x, 0, t] == 0, 
h^(0, 3, 0)[x, L, t] == 0,
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Try copying as InputForm. h^(1, 0, 0) (for example) is meaningless to Mathematica and is not even syntactically correct; it is just a compact visual representation of the true structure: Derivative[1, 0, 0][h]. – Oleksandr R. Sep 16 '12 at 16:51
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h^(1, 0, 0)[0, y, t] is not a meaningful Mathematica input syntax; try something like D[h[x, y, t], x] -- (1) (2) – Mr.Wizard♦ Sep 16 '12 at 16:55
Hmmm... I will try these suggestions. Thanks., – drN Sep 16 '12 at 17:38
@OleksandrR. Your suggestion is the right answer. – drN Sep 16 '12 at 17:47

closed as too localized by belisarius, rm -rf♦, Simon Woods, Oleksandr R., F'x Sep 20 '12 at 12:27

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